Commercial Food Waste Collection

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28th November 2016

These good practice guides are aimed at waste management companies and local authorities to encourage the collection of food waste from small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), public sector organisations, and larger businesses.

Overview

Overview

The commercial food waste guide provides a step-by-step approach to the implementation of a commercial food waste collection service.

The guide largely draws on WRAP’s previous work in the sustainable management of food waste and the learnings from 10 WRAP-funded business food waste ‘demonstration projects’, launched in England in 2012.

The guide consists of a PDF guide, detailing 6 steps to food collection success, as well as templates and data models to enable local authorities:

Step 1: Assessing the opportunities and barriers

Aimed at senior and middle management, this stage will help you understand the: Drivers for more widespread collections of commercial food waste; Legislative requirements for the collection of food waste across the UK; and Key barriers that need to be overcome to introduce a sustainable collection service.